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Glyn Williams, who was born in a working class district of

Cardiff, became editor of an internationally famous South

African daily newspaper and lifelong friend and ally of anti-

apartheid activist Donald Woods.

He was born in central Cardiff in March 1928, brought up in

Adamsdown, and educated at the local primary school and St

Illtyds High School. As an adult he attended Harvard Business

Schoo. Boston, where he completed the Advanced Management

Programme (AMP).

He served with the second battalion of The Welch Regiment in

Burma 1946-47, and subsequently in Malaya. After working on

newspapers in Breconshire and Montgomeryshire as a reporter, he

joined the Welsh morning newspaper, the The Western Mail, in

Cardiff, and also worked for the national Sunday newspaper, The

Empire News. He was Mail chief sub (responsible for production

of all news pages) for five years.

In 1958 he became friendly with another sub-editor on the

Western Mail, Donald Woods, from South Africa, and he later

accepted an invitation to join him as night editor when he

became editor of the Daily Dispatch in East London. When Donald

died at the age of 69, Glyn said in a tribute that “he was a

lovely man in all senses of the word. . . he never let me

down.”

Glyn Williams subsequently became editor and editorial director

of the Daily Dispatch. He was 44 years in full-time journalism,

was an active freelance for ten years and still publishes a

monthly newsletter which circulates worldwide. He and his wife

Joan now live in Perth, Australia, joining family after they had

all left South Africa.

Books: History of the Daily Dispatch (author); Centenary of Border Cricket (editor); The Best of Don Kenyon, South African cartoonist, (editor and author). Winner in 2010 of the

Australian inaugural Paul Henningham Probus award for literary excellence..

He has served on many community and sporting organisations as

president, chairman, captain and secretary and has won awards in

squash, cross country and distance running. .